Hey Matthew,

It's nice to see more documentation on the setup of NetBSD on the Mac,
but I'm left with a few questions:

1) If they are using NetBSD, why use IPnetRouter?  Doesn't NetBSD
provide a much more secure, functional and stable firewalling/nat
system? I'm new to mac68k, so I may be missing something here, but to me
that sounds like installing WinGate to protect your Router :) 

2) You get the user to edit some files with vi , but then proceed to get
them to install Nano. Would it not be better to just learn vi? (trying
to ween myself off "ee" (FreeBSD Editor) right now while I'm at work. vi
is really quite featureful)

3) It might be a good idea to mention that the host files on all the
network machines should be the same as the one you create for the NetBSD
machine.  It's just basic networking info that would be useful I think.

4) It seems to lack any sort of closure.  I mean, it's great that we
have it installed, but maybe you should give some pointers on installing
packages to do something useful with the machine.  It may be kinda
redundant, but you could also point them to every other piece of Mac68k
NetBSD documentation out there, and even the NetBSD home page.

Please don't take my critisims too harshly, I think with a little more
work, this could be a great resource.  I know a few of the NetBSD Mac68k
info pages are getting fairly old, so this development is nice to see (I
think one guy stopped writing because he upgraded to a i386 machine...
traitor ;)  

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On this topic, there is a niche that would be nice to have filled, in
regards to documentation:

NetBSD Mac68k for those familiar with NetBSD but not Mac68k.  I remember
asking some fairly stupid questions in regards to setting my Mac up,
simply because I knew nothing about Mac's when I inherited them. (I only
knew i386 and Sparc architecture at the time).  Though, I imagine I'm
the minority in this case :)


Matthew Theobalds wrote:
> 
> Well, here comes my first return to the community, I have worked on this for
> some time, as I felt that there was a slightly niche missing in the
> documentation of NetBSD for Mac68k.
> 
> Of course, if that is the case there probably wasn't a demand for it. And if
> I have created something solely for myself, then it can be considered
> useless, I suppose!
> 
> Anyway, I would appreciate any comments / criticism of the document before
> it finally, finally is released:
> 
> http://www.blackmagiclabs.com/~durandal/hardware/gellum-documentation.html
> 
> Thankyou very much indeed for your time. And of course, your help!
> 
>  All the best.
> 
>   Matthew

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Pat Wendorf